Dankoff, Robert, <br/><br/>
Ottoman explorations of the Nile :  Evliya Celebi's'Matchless pearl these reports of the Nile' map and his accounts of the Nile and the Horn of Africa in The book of travels / 
Robert Dankoff, Nuran Tezcan, Michael D. Sheridan. 
 - xix, 442 pages :  illustrations, maps, facsimilies ;  25 cm. 
 - Royal Asiatic Society books. Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt Fund series. .
 - Royal Asiatic Society books.  Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt Fund series. .
<br/><br/> Color reproduction of the'Vatican map of the Nile' (Vat. Turc. 73; Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana) on sheet folded inside back cover. Origin of map manuscript: circa 1685 in Turkish with Arabic script; represents Valley of the Nile; original title: Dürr-i bî-misîl în ahbâr-ı Nîl. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-432) and index. 
<br/><br/><br/>Text in English and Turkish. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781909942165  RM430.00 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Erliya Celebi, 1611?-1682? --Travels.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Nile River Valley--Maps.<br/>Nile River--Discovery and exploration.